Month: July 2021

Left: Kevin James in The Crew (Eric Leibowitz/Netflix), Right: Gabriel Iglesias in Mr. Iglesias (Kevin Estrada/Netflix) We’ve never been the showrunners or stars of a moderate-to-low-rated TV comedy—alas!—but if we were, we can’t imagine a more horrifying time of day to contemplate than the late afternoon on the Friday before a three-day weekend. While everyone else is rushing off to hit the beach or drink stupor-ward or just generally not look at their phones, our hypothetical creators know that this is, more often than not, the Killing Hour—the time when networks can dump a lot of shows off their schedules all at once, without getting nearly as much pushback as they otherwise might. All of which is to say: Netflix pulled out the axe this evening, with Variety reporting that the stre...

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Kelly Clarkson's getting a head start on her Fourth of July weekend ... filing for her own independence from her estranged husband. Clarkson's lawyer, disso-queen, Laura Wasser, filed legal docs Friday ... asking the judge to officially grant Clarkson's request for a divorce, leaving other issues like money and child custody for another day. As we reported, Clarkson's husband, Brandon Blackstock, has challenged their prenup, claiming it is invalid. Millions of dollars are on the line, and a judge has yet to rule on the validity of the prenup. It seems there won't be an issue over custody and spousal support. The judge a...

Netflix is clearing the decks, cancelling four of its original comedy series on Friday: Country Comfort, The Crew, Mr. Iglesias and Bonding will not return for additional seasons on the streamer, TVLine has confirmed. Country Comfort, which debuted in March, starred Katharine McPhee as Bailey, a down-on-her-luck country singer who accidentally became the nanny of a musical brood, led by single dad Beau (Eddie Cibrian). The cast also included Ricardo Hurtado as Tuck, Jamie Martin Mann as Brody, Griffin McIntyre as Dylan, Shiloh Verrico as Cassidy, Pyper Braun as Chloe, Janet Varney as Summer and Eric Balfour as Boone. The Crew, which premiered in February, starred sitcom veteran Kevin James as Kevin, the crew chief for a NASCAR racing team. When the owner stepped down and passed...

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Bruce Lee’s daughter has spoken up to say she finds Quentin Tarantino’s take on her father exhausting.  “I’m really f – – king tired of white men in Hollywood trying to tell me who Bruce Lee was,” Shannon Lee wrote in a Hollywood Reporter guest column response to the director’s comments about her dad made on Joe Rogan’s Spotify podcast.  “Where I’m coming from is … I can understand his daughter having a problem with it, it’s her f – – king father! I get that. But anybody else? Go suck a d – – k,” the 58-year-old auteur told Rogan in response to months of backlash about his controversial depiction of the late actor in “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.”  Shannon Lee has responded to Quentin Tarantino’s comments about her dad, Bruce Lee.Getty Images“[While]...